Quotes from Gatsby: Gatsby's Wealth and Obsession with Daisy

Gatsby's main goal in life is to be with Daisy.  This is shown in Nick's narrative in the story.  "Possibly it occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever."  The green light represents Gatsby's dream, which is to be with Daisy, and the significance, which in Nick's perspective, possibly faded for eternity, is the opportunity to be with Daisy, making it the goal he's wanted for most of his life.  There is another instance where Nick muses on Gatsby's position with Daisy:  "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams."  This quote directly addresses that Daisy was a dream for Gatsby to obtain, and it shows how he struggles with it throughout his life until the afternoon that he meets her for the first time for five years.  Albeit Daisy and Gatsby have been together before, the only detail that would ever make her leave Tom Buchanan would be Gatsby's wealth.  Through the narration that Nick provides, he gives insight to Gatsby's deep pockets so to speak.  "Recovering himself in a minute he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high".  Most common folk only have one or two suits, if at all, and do not have such a plethora of attire at hand in their wardrobe, but Gatsby has plenty to last him throughout the years.  But aside from his wardrobe, what awaits his in the restroom is astonishingly luxurious to say the least.  "His bedroom was the simplest of all--except where the dresser was garnished with a toilet set of pure dull gold."  Most johns are not really classy at all, and most of the time not even properly cleaned, but Gatsby's is not only spotless, it is adorned with golden accessories.  The importance of his wealth shows how much more attracted Daisy will be towards Gatsby now that he has money, ergo, creating a window of opportunity for Gatsby to be with her.